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No. 597.264. Patented Jan. 11, 1898.

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L; GONRADI, Jr. COVER FOR SEATS OF CLOSETS.

N0."597,264. Patented Jan. 11,1898.

' from which individual covers or layers can be UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS CONRADI, JR, OF BARMEN, GERMANY.

COVER FOR SEATS OF CLOSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,264, dated January 11, 1898.

Application filed June 3, 1897- Serial No. 639,311. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LLOUIS GONRADI, Jr., a subject of the King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, residingat Barmen, in the Province of Rhenish Prussia, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Covers for the Seats of Closets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to protecting-covers for seats of closets, such covers being made of paper, woven fabric, or like material, and such covers being formed into a pad or pads stripped or torn ed. The covering of watercloset seats, especially those of hotels, oflices, office-buildings, and all public buildings and institutions and the like, can be regarded as urgently necessary for sanitary reasons as well as for cleanliness; and this invention relates to such protecting-coverings from paper, woven fabric, or like material, of which a series can be united to form a pad or block, and which coverings have an opening corresponding to the closet-seat hole, and are also provided with an arrangement which gives each cover a suitable position or adjustment for use and security against slipping out of place, and which serves for the automatic drawingin and washing away of the cover into the closet body or funnel after use.

Inthe annexed drawings the invention is represented as embodied in various forms.

Figure 1 is a plan View of a cover with drawing-in strip. Fig. 2 is a section along 0c 66, Fig." 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a modification. Fig. 4: is a section along at so, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view of another modification. Fig. 6 is a section along 51: x Fig. 5. Figs. 7 and 8 are perspective views of pads and closets whose seats are provided with covers having drawing-in strips.

The pad or block consists of a number or series of covers or, provided with holes 0, the same being at one or more edges lightly glued together or united by wiring, sewing, or by other means, so that the protecting-covers can be utilized one by one by being torn from the suitably-arranged pad. As security against slipping or displacement and for automatic washing away each cover a, at its opening 0, is provided with one or more strips 7), as seen in Figs. 1 to 8, said strips running longitudinally or crosswise, or in both directions, and which strips, when the cover is laid on the seat, Figs. 7 and 8, curve or hang down into the funnel or body 0, against the sides or walls of the latter. These strips secure the correct positioning or placing of the cover and efiect an automatic washing away of cover after use by the current or wash drawing the cover into the funnel by means of such strip. The weight of the excrements striking the strip also aid in drawing the cover into the funnel. The form or shape of the covers and the application of the pad are determined by the space and the system of the closets.

In closets having a closed wall directly back of the seat the arrangement shown in Fig. 8 is practical, the pad being suspended from a plate 19, of pasteboard, wood, or sheet metal, and secured at its lower part to a guide-rod s, on which each cover detached from the pad at v; slides down and fits or adjusts itself properly on the closet-seat. The short tongue or projection connecting each cover to said rod .3, is formed of very thin paper and may be perforated so as to readily tear off.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A closet-seat cover formed of paper, fabric or the like and having a central hole 0, and adepending strip 1) extending beneath the hole and adapted to enter and draw the cover into the closet-body, substantially a described.

2. A pad composed of a plurality of closetseat covers formed of paper, fabric or the like, and each having a central hole 0 and a depending strip b extending beneath the hole, said covers being superposed one upon the other in close contact together, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a closet-seat, of a vertical guide-rod supported adjacent to said seat, and a plurality of seat-covers movably mounted on said rod, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS CONRADI, JUNIOR. Witnesses:

Aueusr Konnckn, EWALD FRASE. 

